Post 2: Creativity

Creativity refers to whereby a person creates something new e.g. a product, a solution, a work of art etc that has some kind of value. Creativity is about having the ability or to have the power to create something or bring something into existence.
This is the website which I looked on to find out the definition of creativity..

http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/creativ/define.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

As a class we played a game called consequences and we all started off with a sheet of paper and first of all we had to write the word 'the' followed by an adjective and then fold the piece of paper over so the next person could not see it, the next person writes a noun, the next writes a verb, the next writes the word 'the' followed by another adjective and the last person writes a noun. This is the one that returned to me and this is how it came out:
The exhausted goat rollerskates the heavy bed.

I have done my own independent work to show how creative I can be and I have decided to spell the word creativity out of things which are in my house. I then put all of the pictures onto the computer and placed them together and I am very happy with the way that it has turned out. I found it challenging to find different objects which I could use to spell out the different letters. 

In our class we got into groups of four and we was given a task to create a short video and the idea of the short video was to create something around the object of a pen. The video had to include a pen in it and as a group we could create anything we wanted to around this pen. Also in this short film we would not be able to edit the shots so therefore we had to film in the exact order we wanted it to be shown and also had to think about the continuity of the shots. In my group our idea was about a school girl wanting to run for head girl in her school council. We showed her practising her speech to her friends and then she panics because she has lost her 'lucky pen'. The girl searches around the room for this pen and her friends are laughing at her because her pen is in her hair. Eventually her friends tell her that it is in her hair. We then showed this to our teacher and she thought that we did not have enough shots in our short video so we tried it again. This time we used a different location and it worked out better as we was able to use more shots and the story line of the video was more understood. This is our short video that we made...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWuczQPOOpA&feature=player_embedded

Post 1: Introduction

The term 'skills' means the ability which is coming from a persons knowledge, practice etc. It means to do something well in a particular area, so you have the 'skills' for that area. It also means an excellence in performance. An example is saying that the dancer performed with skill.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skill


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill


The definition of 'skills' is that a person has a particular level of expertise in a particular area. They have the knowledge and can perform well in that area and example of this in terms of using skills in media production is that you personally may be better at doing the camera work and have the understanding of this whereas, someone else in your group may not be as good at this area and may be better in the area of acting for the media production and this shows that you have more skills in one area than another.

My own definition of 'skills' is that a person has a special quality in one particular aspect of something. This could be a profession or a hobby etc. Like my example above of a dancer, this person has a particular skill in the profession or the hobby of dance. I think that by having a skill is personal to an individual an every person has a different skill.

Over the past two years of doing media there are certain skills in which I have learnt. These all are very effective when doing media. All of these things are very important, and they are called personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS).
-Team work
-Creativity Thinking
-Independent Enquiry
-Reflective Learner
-Self- Managers
-Effective Participant

The way we was taught to remember all of these words was by putting them into a sentence to help us remember them. This is the sentence which we as a class made up...
In Elephant Town Chris the Rhino Spread Marmite on his Egg Plant thinking about Toast.